Габсбурги. Власть над миром

Howard Louthan, The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge, 1997).

Karin J. MacHardy, War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521–1622 (Basingstoke and New York, 2003).

Orsolya Réthelyi, Mary of Hungary: The Queen and Her Court, 1521–1531 (Budapest, 2005).

8. Филипп II: Новый Свет, религиозные распри и королевский инцест

Henry Kamen, The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance (New Haven and London, 2010).

Henry Kamen, Philip of Spain (New Haven and New York, 1997).

Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt (Harmondsworth, 1985).

Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II (New Haven and London, 2014).

Hugh Thomas, World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II (London, 2014).

9. Дон Хуан и галеры Лепанто

Jack Beeching, The Galleys at Lepanto (New York, 1983).

Gigi Beutler, The Imperial Vaults of the PP Capuchins in Vienna (Capuchin Crypt) (Vienna, 2003).

Niccolò Capponi, Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto (London, 2006).

Estella Weiss-Krejci, 'Restless Corpses: "Secondary Burial" in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties', Antiquity, 75 (2001), 769–80.

Margaret Yeo, Don John of Austria (London, 1934).

10. Рудольф II и пражские алхимики

R. J. W. Evans, Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 1576–1612 (Oxford, 1973).

Paula Sutter Fichtner, Emperor Maximilian II (New Haven, CT, and London, 2001).

Peter French, John Dee (London, 1987).

Peter Marshall, The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague (London, 2006).

Sally Metzler, Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague (New York, 2014).

11. Торжество еретиков

A Companion to the Reformation in Central Europe, ed. Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock (Boston, 2015).

Ferdinand II: 450 Years Sovereign Ruler of Tyrol, ed. Sabine Haag and Veronika Sandbichler (Vienna, 2017).

Valentine Penrose, The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory (London, 1970).

Regina Pörtner, The CounterReformation in Central Europe: Styria 1580–1630 (Oxford, 2001).

Martyn Rady, 'Bocskai, Rebellion and Resistance in Early Modern Hungary', in Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe, ed. László Péter and Rady (London, 2008), 57–66.

12. Фердинанд II, Святая хижина и Чехия

Robert Bireley, Ferdinand II, CounterReformation Emperor, 1578–1637 (Cambridge, 2014).

Bohdan Chudoba, Spain and the Empire 1519–1643 (Chicago, 1952).

Geoff Mortimer, The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 (Basingstoke and New York, 2015).

Jaroslav Pánek et al., A History of the Czech Lands (Prague, 2009).

Brennan C. Pursell, The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2003).

13. Тридцатилетняя «мировая война»

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War, ed. Olaf Asbach and Peter Schröder (London and New York, 2014).

Robert Bireley, Ferdinand II, CounterReformation Emperor, 1578–1637 (Cambridge, 2014).

Geoff Mortimer, Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War (Basingstoke and New York, 2010).

Geoffrey Parker, Thirty Years' War (London and New York, 1984).

Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy (Cambridge, MA, 2011).

14. Ненормальная империя и битва за Вену

Maria Goloubeva, The Glorification of Emperor Leopold I in Image, Spectacle and Text (Mainz, 2000).